🚀 go-pugleaf

Ah, welcome to usenet in Nova Scotia, where all the sticks emerge from
the mud long enough to decry any change to our society that would
benefit us.

Don't want to work on Sunday? Then don't. It's easy. Just say no. God
forbid that we should give ourselves an opportunity to create some new
employment in this province. After all, the last thing many Nova
Scotians want is a job.

Want to spend quality time with the family you say? Great. Maybe you
can go to the Casino. Or a restaurant, or even a bar. Go to the
movies. Go to a bookstore. Or a souvenir shop. You can even go buy a
new mobile home for the family. Just don't go to Wal-Mart or Sobey's.
Yeah, that makes perfect sense.

Oh, but we're _different_ than all those other heathen provinces that
allow their citizens to actually buy things on Sunday, you say. It
makes us *special*.

Yeah, we're different all right. The laughingstock of North America. A
backwater populated by a bunch of hicks that doesn't know what's good
for them. A stupid province that has an opportunity to help itself out
but instead prefers to go begging cap in hand to Ottawa pleading for
more handouts.

Even sleepy old PEI, even formerly laughable Nfld, even pathetic old
NB has it. But this province chooses to protect a small minority of
retail workers in certain types of stores for reasons that make
absolutely no sense, while denying citizens a choice of where to spend
their money and how to live their lives.

And if you're not of the Christian faith, and Sunday isn't your day of
worship, tough shit. You're not really one of us anyway, are you? You
sure as hell can't trace your origins back to Scotland, and that's
really all that matters in this province.

Fortunately, this govt finally seems to have realized that their
present position on Sunday shopping can cost them the next election.
They will be making an announcement this fall. The only thing you can
count on is that it won't go far enough.